🚶‍♂️

Man Walking Emoji 🚶‍♂️

What 🚶‍♂️ means

Full-body and facing sideways, this man wears trousers with a tee-shirt on top. He holds one foot in front, the other behind, and one arm held leisurely by the side, while the entire body is in a relaxed posture.

The 🚶‍♂️ Man Walking emoji refers to any male who is walking irrespective of the age. It can have both, a literal sense and a metaphorical meaning; for example, taking a walk in the park can have both connotations.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If someone asks you "What's up" on text and you're taking a walk to the store, you can send 🚶‍♂️ in that conversation to tell him/her what you're up to.
Use 🚶‍♂️ in any literal sense of walking - walking home, walking to school, walking to your bestie's place, etc. You can use this emoji either while texting someone of your whereabouts or while uploading a social media story of the same.
You can use 🚶‍♂️ in your picture captions to denote a carefree and unbothered attitude. Or because the picture if of you taking a walk.
If you began following someone, either on social media or in your spiritual life, and you're texting your best buddy about it, use 🚶‍♂️ in that context. The spirituality bit can be uploaded on social media too because it's cringy as uploading the former.
If you like uploading your exercise routine on social media, then you can use 🚶‍♂️ while posting about your morning/evening walk.

Other Names

🚶‍♂️ Man Strolling
🚶‍♂️ Taking a Walk
🚶‍♂️ Walk in the Park
🚶‍♂️ Leisurely Walk
🚶‍♂️ Male Pedestrian
🚶‍♂️ Casual Walk
🚶‍♂️ Walking Forward
🚶‍♂️ Walking Towards Something
🚶‍♂️ Stroll
🚶‍♂️ Movement
🚶‍♂️ Locomotion
🚶‍♂️ Travel on Foot

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F6B6 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-walking: Slack:man_walking: Discord
Keywords: amble, gait, hike, man, pace, pedestrian, stride, stroll, walk, walking
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.